Enhancing family safety and communication with real-time location sharing and modern UIs.
Welcome to GroupTrack, an open-source Flutter application designed to enhance family safety 👫 through real-time location sharing 📍 and communication features 💬. GroupTrack aims to provide peace of mind by ensuring the safety 🛣 of your loved ones while facilitating seamless communication regardless of their location.
GroupTrack adopts a declarative UI approach with Flutter and utilizes flutter riverpod for state management. This architecture promotes a clear separation of concerns, making the codebase more maintainable, scalable, and testable. Flutter’s widget-based system allows for the creation of highly responsive UIs, while flutter riverpod ensures efficient state handling across different components, leading to a smooth and intuitive user experience.
GroupTrack is currently in active development 🚧, with plans to incorporate additional features shortly.
GroupTrack ensures your loved ones' well-being with:
- Create and Join Spaces: Set up your own personalised spaces and invite others to join, or become part of an existing group to stay connected.
- Live Location Sharing: Share your real-time location with members of your space, allowing them to follow your journey and stay informed about your whereabouts.
- Track Journeys: Whether it's your own route or someone else's, track journeys in real-time to ensure smooth navigation and timely arrivals.
- Place Notifications: Add specific places within your space, and get notified whenever a member enters or leaves that location, making coordination effortless.
- Real-Time Chat: Stay in touch with other space members through built-in chat functionality, enabling you to coordinate, plan, or simply catch up in real-time.
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Ensure you have the latest stable version of Android Studio installed You can then proceed by either cloning this repository or importing the project directly into Android Studio, following the steps provided in the documentation.
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To enable the MapView functionality, obtaining an API key as instructed in the documentation is required. This key should then be included in the local.properties for android and Info.plist for ios file as follows:
Android:
MAPS_API_KEY=your_map_api_key
IOS:
<key>ApiMapKey</key>
<string>your_map_api_key</string>
Note: Set iOS minimum deployment target to 14.0 or higher
Inside the data/lib directory, create a new file named config.dart. This file will store your place API key, follow format:
class AppConfig {
static const String placeApiKey = 'YOUR PLACE API KEY';
}
To enable Firebase services, you will need to create a new project in the Firebase Console.
Use the applicationId value specified in the app/build.gradle file of the app as the Android package name.
Once the project is created, you will need to add the google-services.json file to the android/app module for android and ios/Runner module for IOS.
For more information, refer to the Firebase documentation.
GroupTrack uses the following Firebase services, Make sure you enable them in your Firebase project:
- Authentication (Phone, Google, Apple)
- Firestore (To store user data)
GroupTrack utilizes the latest Flutter technologies and adheres to industry best practices. Below is the current tech stack used in the development process:
- Flutter Riverpod
- Dart
- async + Stream
- Go Router
- SQLite
- Freezed
- Firebase Authentication
- Firebase Firestore
- Cloud Functions
- Google Maps Flutter
Currently, we are not accepting any contributions.
GroupTrack is owned and maintained by the Canopas team. You can follow them on X at @canopas_eng for project updates and releases. If you are interested in building apps or designing products, please let us know. We'd love to hear from you!
GroupTrack is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
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